abernathy romantic/victorian test

robert burns, to a mouse

“we are mice and God is man. He messes up our lives like the farmer who plows through their homes. we cannot plan for life’s mishaps; they just happen”

anna barbauld, washing day

includes epic imagery with washing clothes

science and industrialization

the romantics were rebelling against __

nature, augustan (highly stylized)

the romantics loved__and were against __ poetry

nature or psychological poet

what was wordsworth often called?

God is in nature (pantheism), we can learn lessons from nature

what did wordsworth believe?

spontaneous overflow of emotion recollected in tranquility (i wandered lonely as a cloud)

wordsworth’s definition of poetry

God is not in nature but uses it to communicate with us

coleridge believed

primary (birthday or grocery list) and secondary (uncontrollable inspiration)

there are two types of imagination/memory according to coleridge:

supernatural or dark romanticism (rime of the ancient mariner)

coleridge was father of the __

william blake

poems reflect his anger toward industry, government, and organized religion; poems mix heaven and hell; works are satirical

lord byron

emphasizes love for his half-sister, who he couldn’t be with so he rebelled against christian morality; the byronic hero

percy shelley, man is not perfect but we should still try

who was a skeptical idealist? what does that mean?

mary shelley, frankenstein

gothic literature that questions replacement of God with science, metaphor for the existence of the philosophies of romantics

john keats

negative capability, become your subject to understand it; he wrote about nature of inspiration, importance of art, and paradoxes of life and beauty

two lovers can never touch, musician can play any instrument but people can never stop listening, trees never lose their leaves

what are the different paradoxes on the grecian urn?

victorian

era of poetry whose philosophy = utilitarianism (the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few); man is a tool for society

alfred lord tennyson, in memoriam

poem for a dead friend where bells represent the passage of time

passage of time

“in memoriam” is a poem for a dead friend in bells represent __

evil of imperialism

english’s global hold on the world (east india company) in which they civilized “savage” people

evils of capitalism and free market economy

government passed few laws to stop big businesses, resulting in child labor and work abuse

elizabeth browning (cry of the children), robert browning (porphyria’s lover, my last duchess)

poems that show evils of capitalism and free market economy

porphyria’s lover, my last duchess

works by robert browning that express “keeping what one can’t have” and “a warning to a dignitary”

ancient greeks

english was such a world power that they felt their stories should rival that of __

the lotus eaters, the lady of shalott

traits of modern man vs classical man are shown in __ and __ by tennyson

tennyson, charge of the light brigade

poem that makes myth of the english empire’s military might

stanzas from the grand chartreuse, dover beach

poems that show God is disproved by science (the end of religion)

william henley, invictus

written while being treated for tuberculosis; he is rebellious, optimistic, and existential

emily bronte, wuthering heights

controversial for its depiction of mental and physical cruelty (domestic violence) and its challenges to victorian morality, religious and societal values

jane austen, pride and prejudice

follows relationship of elizabeth bennet and fitzwilliam darcy who must overcome titular sins to fall in love and marry

preromantic

robert burns era of poetry

preromantic

anna barbauld era of poetry

romantic

wordsworth era of poetry

romantic

coleridge era of poetry

romantic

blake era of poetry

romantic

byron era of poetry

romantic

the shelleys era of poetry

romantic

keats era of poetry

victorian

brownings era of poetry

victorian

alfred lord tennyson era of poetry

victorian

matthew arnold era of poetry

victorian

william henley era of poetry

victorian novel

what kind of work was “wuthering heights” by emily bronte

victorian novel

what kind of work was “pride and prejudice” by jane austen

robert burns

name the poet: to a mouse

anna barbauld

name the poet: washing day

wordsworth

name the poet: prelude, nuttin’, i wandered lonely as a cloud

coleridge

name the poet: kubla khan, eolian harp, rime of the ancient mariner

william blake

name the poet: london, the tyger, the lamb, chimney sweeper

lord byron

name the poet: she walks in beauty

percy shelley

name the poet: ode to the west wind, ozymandias

mary shelley

name the poet: frankenstein

john keats

name the poet: ode to a nightingale, ode on a grecian urn, la belle dame sans merci

alfred lord tennyson

name the poet: in memoriam, ulysses, lotus eaters, the lady of shalott, charge of the light brigade

elizabeth browning

name the poet: the cry of the children

robert browning

name the poet: porphyria’s lover, my last duchess

matthew arnold

name the poet: dover beach, stanzas from the grand chartreuse

william henley

name the poet: invictus

emily bronte

name the poet: wuthering heights

jane austen

name the poet: pride and prejudice

bubbles are inspiration, negative capability

what is the metaphor in “washing day”?

syphilis

in “london,” blake uses __ as a metaphor for the hypocrisy in man’s law

man playing god, twisted combination of monster = philosophies of romantic poets do not work tgt

what is “frankenstein” a metaphor for?

inspiration and interpretation

coleridge’s “christabel” shows the importance of __

dramatic monologues

what kind of poetry is robert browning famous for writing?

sonnets from the portuguese

what poems does elizabeth browning write for her husband?

critics who cause pain to the artist

what does lancelot/camelot represent in “the lady of shalott”?

dover beach

science has contributed to the end of western religion and the imprisonment it causes

stanzas from the grand chartreuse

armies clash by night symbolizes wars for land no one truly owns of for gods won’’t exist in a thousand years